Research On The Five Hundred Arhat Statues Of Qiongzhu Temple In Kunming And Baoguang Temple In Chengdu

This paper mainly discussed the similarity and difference of five hundred Arhats statues in the Qiongzhu temple of Kunming and Baoguang temple of Chengdu, and discussed the reasons for the similarities and differences. This article is divided into three chapters, the first chapter collected from the literature materials, introduces the origin and transmission of the two areas five hundred Arhats; the second chapter from the two temples Arhats character types, production process and the statues of Arhat hall that discussed two temples similarities and from the Arhats space placement, sculpture style and the single Arhats statue discussed about the differences of two temples; compared to pictures, table of five hundred Arhats statues of the two temples, we can know the similarities and differences, between the two temples; in the third chapter analyses the reasons, the author reasons:on the one hand reflected in the religious sense, the statues showed similarities; on the other hand two temple powder may originated from the same place, or the Arhats statues of Qiongzhu temple shaped from the Baoguang temple, and on this basis, they created them, because Li Guangxiu repaired the five hundred Arhats statues of Baoguang temple, then came to Qiongzhu temple in Yunnan, built five hundred Arhats. Vary the reason might be:inherited the art of traditional techniques; the innovation; namely with the growth of personal experiences; reflected the differences in the aesthetic; geographical and cultural aesthetics of statue. The reality of cultural integrated to the five hundred Arhats statues, reflected the concerns of all sentient beings, as well as by Arhats statues expressed the Buddhist idea of "all living things equality".The statues of two temples shaped in the Guangxu Emperor of Qing Dynasty, but the sculpture style, technique of context had historic. This paper according to the temple in the existing object and local chronicles records, as well as the historical stories of Li Guangxiu, combined with investigation of the statues, by the modern view horizon, through historical data, from the multi-level, multi angle to understand the symbols of Arhats statues, and through these symbols to understand the relationship between the social culture, arts, and social all walks of life and Buddhist statues, to understand the clay characteristics of the southwest in the Qing Dynasty.